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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28376	A true history of a child anatomized, which remained twenty five years in his mothers belly with all those reflections which the phænomena of the same may explain : very serviceable and useful for all, especially physicians, chirurgeons, and midwives / by Nicolas de Blegny ... ; translated according to the approved and priviledged copy of Paris ; with copper plates.; Histoire anathomique d'un enfant qui a demeuré vingt-cinq ans dans le ventre de sa mère. English	Blégny, Monsieur de (Nicolas), 1652-1722.	1680 (1680)	Wing B3187; ESTC R7794	8,482	58

necessity of Drawing out the Child which happened with Success as afterwards the After-birth according to the ordinary Course but yet she felt some Pains when feeling about the Circuit of her Navel a little to the side of the Liver I found a moving Hardness much like a Childs Head which I also demonstrated to the Midwife whereby we judged the Woman was not wholly delivered so I put my Hand again into the Womb and diligently searching the whole Concavity of the Matrix I felt the Entrance of the right a little opened into which I presently got my Fore-finger afterwards another and then my whole Hand with which I took out of the same more than two pounds of Congealed and in some measure hardened Blood and then the aforesaid round Hardness was no more felt This Experience then affirmeth That the Entrance of this Trunk or Pipe of the Matrix can suffer a great stretch But here are two difficulties yet remaining to be resolved The first is That if this part had been open in that moment when our Child passed then it would not have occasioned the Ulceration which was found in the Matrix The Second is That this Ulceration covered the whole Circumference of the bottom of this part and that the Entrance of which we have already spoke is in the side of the said Bottom The Solution of these two Points is easie The Chyrurgeons who are used to Deliver Women and the Midwives know That in all Common and Natural Deliveries the Children always come forth before that the Circumference of the Inward Opening of the Matrix be as big as their Head and that the same passage doth inlarge it self at the same time they pass through it It may then be that our Child sticking fast in the Pipe or Trunk of the which I have already spoken before the impressing of the Water caused a greater Opening and that so in its passage made a partition in the whole which possibly gave the first occasion of the Ulceration whereof we have treated and that this Separation most likely was made upon the side before the After-birth was joyned fast to the Matrix rather then any where else by reason that is always moist and therefore it followeth by reason to be more easie in this place then any other I will not make any demur in Explaining the Generation of that Stony Body or Substance found in the bottom of the Matrix it is evident by Experience that in the Ulcers which are not well Cleansed and Purified the Matter and Filth which remaineth upon the Sides from time to time produceth by succession a strong hardness but every one might doubt how the Legs of our Infant which in all probability were first born should have placed themselves in such order that they followed the motion of the Water and so at the same time are come into the Trunks or Pipes seeing they are not Naturally Crooked and mollified in the Matrix Moreover That under the divers Motions of this Child it was so as by chance placed in order the Knees which ordinarily are close joyned together may be first passed thorow so that the Legs lying close about the Buttocks could not possibly stop the rest of the Body However it is it is apparent the Head came last because it rested against the bottom of the Matrix and the Disposition in which the right Arm was found doth declare that it served for a form to hinder the Head from being stopped in its Passage which according to many Authors is a very necessary Circumstance in those Deliveries where the Children come forth with their Feet first See here then the Passage of this Child out of the Matrix sufficiently explained so that what happened thereafter is now to be examined Concerning the Time it stayed in its Mothers Body and principally how it was Conserved there Therefore First We must take this for certain That the Bodies of Creatures are preserved from Corruption either by Nourishment which maintaineth Life or by some certain Effect which hinders the Dissolution after Death And it may well be that both these Causes did Concur in Conservation of our Child for there is nothing to hinder our believing That for some time it continued receiving the Blood thorow the Vessels of the Navel for its Nourishment seeing we experience every day that in some Womens Labours the After-birth sticks fast to the Matrix so that they are forced to separate it with Fingers and sometimes pull it out by Piece-meals This is an Observation that cannot truly be alledged against If this Lump can remain fast annexed to the Matrix after the Child is brought forth into the World then it is clear enough that it was so in the Case of Margaret because her Child continued enjoying its first Nourishment for the outward Air could not touch the String and therefore cause no hindrance in the motion of the Blood wherewith it was full and it is undoubtable that the Child was preserved some time by this means by reason Margaret voided no Blood at that time when the Child passed thorow the Matrix into the Concavity of the Belly but to the contrary some Weeks after when she was given Opening and Forceing Medicines she voided some Lumps or Clodders of Blood which most apparently caused some partition in some part of the After-birth By that which already hath been said we may suggest that our Child might be nourished about Two Months without the Matrix in the same manner as when he was in the same And it is to be comprehended that that same wherewith it was covered was that which preserved it from Corruption after its Death sheltring it from the piercing Air Moistures and other Beginnings of Corruption Here also may arise a Doubt whether it ceased to live by reason of the want of that motion of the Blood which it drew to him by the String or that it continued receiving Nourishment some other way but as the Conclusions upon this Doubt are very dubious I shall content my self to shew the Reasons upon these two Circumstances and leave the Reader to side with which he pleaseth And first forasmuch as concerneth the Generation of the Crust it is not certain that it had sufficient thickness to nourish our Child before the After-birth was separated But we may say that therein was no impossibility because the Water flowing forth in her Labour and the After-birth remaining in the Matrix that which was found fleshy in the Crust could be no other thing then the Trunk or Pipe in the which our Child had placed it self And this place or part was thick enough to with-stand the Breathings which issued from the Child as it expired And although many Witnesses have asserted That our Child did naturally stir until the Eighteenth year they must confess that it was no otherwise then as Margaret turned her self from one side to the other which doth evidence that it was nothing but that motion the which might be seen in the Molae But it may be said and very truly that Margaret every Nine Months felt almost Travel Pangs but that doth not prove that these Pains were the Effect of those Endeavours which the Child did to be brought forth It is found out to be no otherwise caused than by the moisture cast up by the Mother and that was sufficient to moisten these parts at all times so that the Child might fall to the bottom of the Matrix and so cause the Pains Finally It must be consented That the Child could not live without sustenance from the Navel Strings First Because the same being annexed unto the After-birth could receive no Nourishment otherwise then in the same manner as the Molae Secondly The Skin and Flesh being tinctured with Blood it is credible that their Vessels were anatomized with the Cawl Thirdly Being at that time a part and member of the Mother needed no other Respiration then from its self Fourthly Being extream hard and great it may be judged that it supplied the place of the After-birth But all these Circumstances have others which contradict them Our Child was not so perfectly fast to the Cawl as the Molae is to the Matrix there being a thick Crust between them the Anatomy was not perfectly observed by all that opened the Body of Margaret The Child which doth not respire while it is in the Matrix must of necessity transpire through the Heart Veins of the Mother and it is evident that the Blood thorow these Vessels did not circum-ambulate in our Child because it did not waxe accordingly And it is well enough known That those Humours which have lost their Natural Motion being gathered or congealed in any part of the Body of necessity must generate an extraordinary motion which either ripens them or they stay in the same form which generates a hardness But howsoever it is If our Child did live after the Ulceration of the After-birth then the manner and case in which we found the Child demonstrates that the Child had been a long time dead and that its preservation proceeded from nothing else but the Crust wherewith it was covered I speak nothing of the bigness of the Nails for it is known they grow after Death and passing by all superfluous Circumstances The first Consideration which may in this Case be made is that the Imperial Cut is not to be despised as some new Authors do affirm seeing there may be false Conceptions and Children themselves generated in the Trunks or Pipes of the Matrix as well as those conceived in the Matrix can cast them out The Second Consideration That if in due time this Operation had been used the Child might have been pulled out and Margaret not have suffered and under-gone so many pains which she suffered so many years The Third is That if the Matrix had been cut which in this Case is most dangerous there ought to have been a certainty that the Child was in the Trunks or Pipes of the Matrix Finally The Fourth is Then when after a certain being with-child the Travel or Labour and Pains accordingly do come yet then you shall find the Inward Opening closed and shut and the Child either upon the right or left side higher than before with a Falling Motion which then you may be assured is in one of the Pipes of the Matrix and then the Imperial Cut is very necessary FINIS